A Place of Greater Safety

Title: A Place of Greater Safety
Author: Hilary Mantel
ISBN: 9780312426392
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 766
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter. In the swells of revolution, they each taste the addictive delights of power, and the price that must be paid for it.